Why Does Ear Wax Taste So Gross? By Mitchell Symons

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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407050669
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
Categories:
  • Young readers non-fiction
  • Personal & social issues
Why Does Ear Wax Taste So Gross?
  • Mitchell Symons
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Mitchell Symons' latest file'o'facts is as weird, wonderful and entertaining as ever!

DID YOU KNOW?

Stinky ear wax has been hanging around in the ear canal for nearly a month before it is 'pickable'!

Humans share a third of their DNA with lettuce.

Cockroaches fart every fifteen minutes.

Giraffes never kneel.

The average person spends six months of their life on the loo.

Amaze your friends and fascinate your family with this book packed with jaw-dropping, eyebrow-raising facts.

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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407050669
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
Categories:
  • Young readers non-fiction
  • Personal & social issues

About the author

Mitchell Symons

Mitchell Symons was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning column for the Sunday Express. Mitchell has won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Awards twice, for WHY EATING BOGEYS IS GOOD FOR YOU and DO IGLOOS HAVE LOOS?

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Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects that anybody on Earth

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